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Spanish 502: AFRO-LATINIDAD and the Diasporic Experience in Hispanic Culture and Literature E (T2): Readings Recommended

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Reading List from Ms. Allen

Afro-Dominican writers: Blás Jiménez, Norberto James Rawlings 

Afro-Panamanian writers: Carlos Guillermo Wilson 

Afro-Mexican culture: Carlos Fuentos, The Death of Artemio Cruz; Octavio Paz, Labyrinth of Solitude; Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderland/La Frontera 

William Luis, Afro-Latino/a Literature and Identity 

William Luis, Afro-Cuban/Latino Identity

William Luis, Afro-Latino Identity and the Poetry of Tato Laviera
Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, editors, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States 

Roberto P. Rodriguez-Morazzani, Beyond the Rainbow: Mapping the Discourse on Puerto Ricans and “Race” 

S.M. Álvarez, ¡¿Qué, Qué?! – Transculturación and Tato Laviera’s Spanglish Poetic D. García, Between Myth, Race and Marginality: Jesús Colón and the Afro Latino 

Condition 

F. Piñeiro de Rivera, Arturo Schomburg: Un puertorriqueño descubre el legado histórico del negro 

V.M. Vega, An Analysis of Centrality of the Latino of African Descent: Understanding Afrocentric Agency in a Selected Segment of Contemporary Representative 

Latinos of African Descent
René Marqués, Cuentos puertorriqueños de hoy 

Freddy Prestol Castillo, El masacre se pasa a pie
Julia Álvarez, En el nombre de Salomé
Daisy Coco de Felippis y Franklin Gutiérrez, Literatura dominicana en los EE.UU. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Plácido a Cuban Martyr
Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches
Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets
Felipe Luciano, Jíbaro, Mi negro lindo
Willie Perdomo, Nigger-Reecan Blues
Tato Laviera, La Carreta Made a U-Turn
Miguel Piñero, A Lower Eastside Poem
Marta Moreno Vega, When the Spirits Dance Mambo 

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Dahlma Llanos Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone 

Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 

Afro-Cuban poets: Juan Francisco Manzano, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, Martin Morúa Delgado, Nicolás Guillén, Nancy Morejón, Georgina Herrera 

Afro-Cuban culture: Fernando Ortiz, Cuban Counterpoint Tobacco and Sugar; Lydia Cabrera, El monte; Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters 

Juan Flores, The Diaspora Strikes Back Juan Flores, From Bomba to Hip-Hop Adrián Castro, Cantos to Blood and Honey Julia Álvarez, Black Behind the Ears 

Junot Díaz, Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao